Ball bouncing pull toy



Dec. 11, 1951 MYSELS 2,578,579

BALL BOUNCING PULL TOY Filed June 11, 1949 Patented Dec. 11, 1951 UNITED"sTAT s WW FFICE 2,578,579 BALL BOUNCING PULL TOY George Mysels, NewYork, N. Y.

Application June 11, 1949, Serial No. 99,556

This invention relates to new and useful improvements inroll-along'trundle toys, and, more particularly, the aim is to provide anovel and valuable such toy incorporating a wheeled underbody,transparent chambering means for one or more freely tossable objects,and means operating incidental to turning of the wheels during travel ofthe toy for tossing upward said object or objects. a

A feature of the invention is that in no sense are the one or moretossable objects present as captive or partially captive ones, but, onthe contrary, said objects are freely tossable and so as to haveunprevised trajectories within the limits of its or their transparentchamber or chambers.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the roll-along toy constructed inaccordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a side elevational view, partly in vertical section to revealinterior constructions, of the roll-along toy constructed in accordancewith a modification of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view taken on body l6, of glass, asuitable plastic or other transparent material, and, with such jarinverted to arrange its open mouth lowermost, there is fixedly connectedto extend across its then bottom a. separate wall 11. The wall I! isshown as in the form of the central concave floor portion of ashallow-cuplike cap [8, as one stamped and 3 Claims. (01. 46--204) 2drawn of thin sheet metal or made of a suitable plastic, and so havingan encircling flange or rim. The cap I8 is attached to the body IS inany convenient way, either frictionally or as by fabricating said bodyto include an external integral circumferential bead l9, and by spinningsaid rim into lock engagement with the bead 19 as shown, if the cap isof metal, or by applying a suitable plastic-softener to said flange orrim and then reshaping the latter analogously relative to the bead l9,if the cap is of a plastic.

The interior of the single container incorporated in the embodiment nowbeing described, such container providing a single chambering meansaccording to the invention, may be used for confining therein, yetfreely tossably therein, one or more otherwise non-captive tossableobjects pursuant to the invention. As here shown, a single such object,20, is provided; which latter is desirably a lightweight thin andelastic walled hollow sphere, constituted, ideally, as a standard pingpong or table tennis ball.

The wall 11 is slotted as at 2!, and fixedly carried by the axle II area pair of oppositely projecting paddles 22, so that, as the two-wheeledcart is moved along by a child, as by way of a handle in the form of apull or push rod 23 secured to the ball chambering container asindicated at 24 thereby to cause the wheels II) to rotate (if the rod 24is used as a traction rod) in the direction of the arrow 25 of Fig. 3,said paddles whirl in the same direction, and on each half turn of thewheels one of the paddles will give an upward kick to the ball 29 andtoss the same toward the top of its toss chamber.

The ball 29 may be white or variegatedly colored, and with said ball ofthe kind described, the same, each time it is thus kicked, will fly tothe top of the toss chamber, strike the latter with a pleasing clickingsound, and then drop to bounce perhaps several times, with graduallydiminishing loudness of the clicks occurring at the bouncings. Thesetravels of the ball will be clearly seen, due to the transparentcharacter of the body Hi.

In the modification of the invention shown in Figs. 4 to 7, theroll-along toy is characterized by a pair of chambers of containersarranged in tandem. Each of the containers 46 comprises an invertedtransparent jar-like body 4| supported one behind the other on a frame42. The frame 42 comprises a pair of cap-like members 43 arranged onebehind the other and secured together by an integral connector member44f The walls 45 which close the open bottoms of the jar-like bodies 4|are downwardly dished so that a ball 48, within each of the containers48, normally seeks a position at the lowermost center of the wall underthe influence of gravity. Each of the jar-like bodies 41 is secured inposition within its respective cap-like member 43 by means of a cement47 having an afiinity for the materials used to form the jar-like bodiesand the cap-like members 43.

Diametrically opposite sides of each of the cap-like members 43 areformed with depending lug portions 48 through which the ends of shaft 49rotatively extend. The ends of the shafts 49 are irregularly shaped andwheels '3 having irregularly shaped openings, corresponding to the shapeof the ends of the shafts 49, are mounted on the ends of the shafts. Thewheels 50 are retained in position by means of washers 5| and cotterpins 52, so that as the wheels turn the shafts 49 will also be rotated.

The bottom walls 45 of the cap-like members 43 are'formed with slots 53'extended at right angles to the shafts 49 and paddles 54" extendradially from opposite sides of the shafts 49 in alignment with theslots 53. Thus, as the shafts 49rotatethe paddles 54 will enter the slotand hit 'the'ball'4fi shooting it upward within the jarlike body 4!. Thewheels'50 are formed with inwardly directed hub portions 50, seeespecially Fig. 7, which engage the outer faces of the depending lugportions 48 toretain the shafts 4'9 against longitudinalmovement and ina position in-which-the paddles 54 will-be aligned with the slots 53.

Extended: forward from the front cap-like member 43 there is anapertured ear 55. An elongated pull cord 56 has. one end attached tothe. ear 55 and its other endprovided with a ball 57, see'Fig. 4,forming a grip by which the pull cord 56=can be conveniently used topull the toy over a ground surface.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of myinvention, it is to be'understood that I donot limit myself to theprecise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved. to allchanges and modifications coming within the scope of the invention asdefined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. In a pull toy having an open bottomed transparent container supportedon. a rotative wheeled axle, a wall closing the open bottom of thecontainer, said wall being formed over the axle with anelongated slothaving its length extended at right angles to the length of the axle,

a freely tossable object within the container and rested on said wall,and means on the axle for entering the container through said slot asthe axle rotates for intermittently striking and kicking said objectupward within the container, said wall having a concave top surfaceconverged toward said slot so that said object will seek a position oversaid slot to be struck by said means.

2. In a pull toy having an open bottomed transparent container supportedon a rotative wheeled axle, a wall closin the open bottom of thecontainer, said wall being formed over the axle with an elongated slothaving its length extended at right angles to the length of the axle, afreely tossable object within the container andrested on said wall, andmeans on the axle for entering the container through said slot as theaxle rotates for intermittently striking and kicking said object upwardwithin the container, said wall having a concave top surface convergedtoward said slot so that said object will seek a position over said slotto be struck by said means,

said object being; a ball.

3. In a pull toy having an open bottomed transparent container supportedon a rotative wheeled axle, a wall closing the open bottom of thecontainer, said wall being formed over the axle with an elongated slothaving its length extended at right angles to the length of the axle, afreely tossable object within the container and rested on said wall, andmeans on the axle for entering the container through said slot as theaxle rotates for intermittently striking and kicking said object upwardwithin the container, said wall having a concave top surface convergedtoward said slot so that said object will seek a position over said slotto be struck by said means, said means comprising paddles-extendingradially from opposite sides of said axlein alignment with said slot,said paddles being of a length to have their free ends project upwardthrough said slot during the upper half of each complete revolutionthereof.

GEORGE MYSELS.

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